Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although … punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … highlight punishments' failures in this regard. These studies ignore punishments' social effects, and particularly its role in …

the role of details of the environment that may alter focal contribution norms in an important way. …

in honesty and cooperation and tested the individual-level links between these two moral domains. Participants completed … both honesty and cooperation tasks after observing their peers. Consistent with the literature, separate analysis of the … two domains indicated both negative and positive peer influences in honesty and in cooperation, with negative influences …

Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although … punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, many recent results in psychology and economics … highlight punishments' failures in this regard. These studies ignore punishments' social effects, and particularly its role in …

the role of details of the environment that may alter focal contribution norms in an important way. …